Create default rows for repeater

• yavisht

• July 25, 2016 at 12:26 pm

I have a repeater field that is assigned to all users called “quick_links”

There is a subfield in repeater “quick_links” called “bookmarks” which is of type URL.

This allows the user to add a list of frequently visited links.

I can add and display all the rows from the repeater field on the user’s page.

However, when a new user is created, the repeater field is empty.

What if I want to add 3 rows with different url’s by default when a new user is created for its repeater field? The user can then edit or delete links as required.

Please let me know the best way to achieve this..

• yavisht

• July 25, 2016 at 1:12 pm

I found a way to do this.. I want to know if this is the ideal way of achieving this?
Is there another way to add the update code instead of else:

<?php 
$rowvalue = get_field('quick_links', 'user_' . $user_id);

// check if the repeater field has rows of data
if( have_rows('quick_links', 'user_' . $user_id) ):

    // loop through the rows of data
    while ( have_rows('quick_links', 'user_' . $user_id) ) : the_row();

        // Testing field output
        the_sub_field('icon', 'user_' . $user_id);
        echo "<br />";
        the_sub_field('title', 'user_' . $user_id);
        echo "<br />";
        the_sub_field('link', 'user_' . $user_id);
        echo "<br />";
        echo "<br />";
    endwhile;

else :
$updated_value = array
  (
  array("icon"=>"fa-align-justify","title"=>"Link 1","link"=>"http://www.hotmail.com"),
 array("icon"=>"fa-align-justify","title"=>"Link 2","link"=>"http://www.google.com"),
  array("icon"=>"fa-align-justify","title"=>"Link 3","link"=>"http://www.yahoo.com"),
  );
  
update_field('quick_links', $updated_value , 'user_' . $user_id);

endif;

?>

• James

• July 25, 2016 at 1:52 pm

Hi @yavisht

I think your code is good enough. You can also move it so the repeater is updated before you’re trying to show it like this:

if( !have_rows('quick_links', 'user_' . $user_id) ){
    $updated_value = array(
        array("icon"=>"fa-align-justify","title"=>"Link 1","link"=>"http://www.hotmail.com"),
        array("icon"=>"fa-align-justify","title"=>"Link 2","link"=>"http://www.google.com"),
        array("icon"=>"fa-align-justify","title"=>"Link 3","link"=>"http://www.yahoo.com"),
    );
      
    update_field('quick_links', $updated_value , 'user_' . $user_id);
}

if( have_rows('quick_links', 'user_' . $user_id) ):

    // loop through the rows of data
    while ( have_rows('quick_links', 'user_' . $user_id) ) : the_row();

        // Testing field output
        the_sub_field('icon', 'user_' . $user_id);
        echo "<br />";
        the_sub_field('title', 'user_' . $user_id);
        echo "<br />";
        the_sub_field('link', 'user_' . $user_id);
        echo "<br />";
        echo "<br />";
    endwhile;

endif;

I hope this helps 🙂